Mother is Everything

          A phrase which states that “mother is everything” it's true. Mother could be a figure of a woman that is soft and also very powerful figured though. Soft attitude can we feel in terms of affection, and can also be strong in terms of protecting her children. Sometimes we do not realize how precious a mother. Beautiful when she was cooking for a family. Tender feelings of a mother noticeable when she listen her children love story which started growing up. Strong spirit reflected when a mother protected her children from things that could be theirs harm. It's all just a little example of the role of a mother. Mom worked tireless. However, when the mother got sick, all will be neglected. Strong figure was changed. My mother could only lay limp on the mattress, smiled weakly when we are welcome home from activities, and nothing delicious food presented at the table. And that's realized how important a mother in our lives. This paper is a special gift for my beloved mother who is currently sick. Get well soon mommy. I love u mom.

New Vocabulary  

1. Precious: loved or valued very much. 

2. Tender: kind, gentle and loving. 

3. Neglected: not receiving enough care or attention. 

4. Limp: lacking strength or energy.

Mother's Day

          Mother's day is celebrated nationally on December 22. It is the day of the first Indonesian Women Congress from December 22 to 25, 1928. The meeting happens in a building called Dalem Jayadipuran now functioned as office of Center of History and Traditional Values Preservation in Brigjen Katamso Street, Yogyakarta. It was attended by 30 feminist organizations from 12 cities in Java and Sumatra. In Indonesia, feminist organizations have existed since 1912, inspired by Indonesian heroines of the 19^th century, e.g. Kartini, Martha Christina Tiahahu, Cut Nyak Meutia, Maria Walanda Maramis, Dewi Sartika, Nyai Ahmad Dahlan, Rasuna Said, etc.

New Vocab

1. Heroines: a girl or woman who is admired by many for doing something brave or good.

2. e.g.: It is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase exempli gratia. The meaning is “for example.”

Compound Sentences Using Coordinators

1. He did not take the money, for it was not the right thing to do.

2. I want to go to the bookstore, and I want to go to her birthday party.

3. I did not see it, nor did they.

4. The teacher was talking, but the pupils failed to listen.

5. You can join me at the bookstore, or you can stay home.

6. The sun is warm, yet the air is cool.

7. She wanted to buy a dress, so she saved her money.

I Love You Mommy!

If there are any questions, "Who were the most powerful in the world?" I will answer out loud, my mother. Mother is everything for me. Her sacrifice for me is very big. She was carrying me for 9 months, breastfeeding for 2 years, and taught me so far. No one treasure in the world that can be used to pay all the sacrifice of mothers. Because of too noble a mother, then God gives heaven under the heel of his mother. So, devoted to the mother! Then we will enter into paradise.

New Vocab

1. Sacrifice: to give up someone that is important or valuable to you in order to get or do someone that seems more important for yourself or for another person. 

2. Breastfeeding: she feeds her baby with milk from her breasts. 

3. Noble: having fine personal qualities that people admire, such as courage, honesty and care for others. 

4. Devoted: having great love for somebody and being loyal to them.

New Face of My Blog

          The interesting story this week is about my blog. I made some changes on my blog. I have a new background, fresher than before. I chose a yellow as the dominant color on my blog. It makes my blog look fresher than ever. I’m adding a description about blog title and change my blog layout position. There are also additional ornament analog clock on my blog, more interesting when I looked. I chose illustrated head of the dog to analog clock. Because, it adjusts with my background picture a dog trail. Hopefully, with a new looks on my blog, I am be more interested to open a blog and writing tasks. I love my new blog. 

-New Vocabulary-

1. Adjust: to change something slightly to make it more suitable for a new set of conditions or to make it work better.

2. Trail: a long line or series of marks that is left by something.

Speaking Midterms

          I'm mid term test of speaking 3 today, and I have bad experience in exam. The topic speaking is about problems related to choosing a language school overseas. At the first time, I felt comfortable. But, everything changed when at the end of the presentation. I forgot one parts of presentation materials. So, I stopped talking and confused to say what else. Finally, I closed my explanation, and forgot to give the conclusion. I do not feel up to the test this time. I feel disappointed. And, I was determined to correct a mistake today. Still have a chance at the end of semester exams. And, I will fight to get the best score.

-New Vocabulary-

1. Related: connected with something or somebody in some way.

2. Overseas: connected with foreign countries, especially those separated from your country by the sea or ocean.

3. Feel up: to have the strength and energy to do or deal with something.

4. Determined: showing a person’s determination to do something.

My Beloved Dad

          My father is nicest person in my life. His name is Dwi Sudarmanto. He was born in Kebumen on June 3^rd, 1965. My father is very handsome. He is the 2^nd child. He has 1 sister, 2 younger brother, and 2 younger sister. My father is a teacher and teaching at STM Karya Guna Manggarai. He has a funny character. He never did physical violence against me, even though pinch though. However, behind his kindness, he also has a very disciplined nature. I sometimes feel constrained by the nature of his discipline. But, I realized it was also for my good. Discipline was taught by him to get me to live better than now. Because, the father said that discipline is the key to success. I love him so much.

-New Vocabulary-

1. Pinch: to take a piece of somebody is skin between your thumb and first finger and squeeze hard, especially to hurt the person. 

2. Nature: the usual way that a person or an animal behaves that is part of their character. 

3. Constrained: not natural, forced or too controlled.

Bad Experience

          Idul Adha is one of the Muslim feast. This year, Idul Adha is celebrated on Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Today was my first experience seeing cuts sacrificial animals. One word to describe it’s all “sickening”. Animal blood is splattered so much. I was basically afraid of blood, and when I saw so much blood in the goat abattoir, and then I throw up spontaneously. Goat voice struggling sounds so heartbreaking. And the effect is, I will not be able to eat meat this year. And after this, I promise to myself, next year I will never see the slaughter of sacrificial animals directly. So, I can eat opor meat, sate, and rendang again.

-New Vocabulary-

1.      Feast: a day or period of time when there is a religious festival.

2.      Sacrificial: the act of offering something to a God.

3.      Sickening: making you feel disgusted or shocked.

4.      Splattered: to drop or throw water, paint, mud, etc. on somebody something.

5.      Abattoir: a building where animals are killed for food.

6.      Throw up: to bring food from the stomach back out through the mouth.

7.      Struggling: to fight somebody or try to get away from them.

8.      Heartbreaking: a strong feeling of sadness.

9.      Slaughter: the killing of animals for their meat.

My Hobby

          Reading is the most interesting hobby for me. Reading is fun. I’m reading everyday, everywhere, and every time. I like reading novel. Last Sunday, I was read a book, the title is Terapi Cinta: Agar Si Dia Nggak Mendua by Syifa D. Gumaisha. In her book that she wrote, there was a study done by Mr. Helen Fischer, a researcher of love and author of Anatomy of Love, who said that the effectiveness of Phenylethylamine compounds produced by the body begin to decrease. So within a period of 4 years is a critical time for the couple and we are experiencing courtship. But if a critical mass that can be overlooked, build our relationship with the couple will be lasting. It’s an interesting book.

With reading we can add to knowledge and open the horizons of the world. That's reason why I like reading.

1. Researcher: to study something carefully and try to discover new facts about it.
2. Phenylethylamine: name of compound substances that exist in the human brain.
3. Courtship: the time when two people have a romantic relationship before they get married.
4. Overlooked: to see something wrong or bad but decide to ignore it.

The Nightmare

     Learning English has four skills. They are reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In writing we must paying attention about punctuation and capitalization and in speaking about pronunciation. I have bad experience when I'm learning English. Onetime, in the speaking class, my lecturer calling my name and I must stand up in front of the class to retell about the material. It is make me panicky. So, I can't speak clearly because my pronunciation is become chaotic. I always fear when my lecturer calling my name to stand up in front of the class or answer her questions. This is the biggest nightmare when I'm learning English.


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1. Panicky : nervous.
2. Chaotic : in a state of complete confusion and lack of order.
3. Nightmare : a dream that is very frightening or unpleasant.

My Leisure Time

     Leisure time is a free time to I do everything. It’s time to refreshing from all fatigue activities that I do in a week day. I like reading novel, chatting, shopping, and sleeping. Sometimes, I’m cleaning and rearrange the home decoration with my mom, so it can get a fresh new look.  It’s all activity that I do in my leisure time, and it can re-energize for the next routine activities in a week day.

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1. Fatigue : a feeling of being extremely tired, usually because of hard work or exercise.
2. Re-energize : to give somebody more energy, strength, etc.

Conscience

     Writing is a difficult thing for me. A lot of things that need to be noticed when I want to start a posting. Start by finding inspiration in the first, and then how to develop a main idea into a coherent paragraph. The use of punctuation and capitalization are also no less importance in writing. Again have to pay attention to grammar what is in use. All elements of it become one in terms of writing. It is not wrong if someone says if we want to write, need peace of mind and also a good mood. I'm sure writing it will not be as easy as what we think. However, when writing it into a demand in a subject, I began to think, whether I will to run from this problem and continue to consider writing it a burden. I'm sure it would not be good if I continue. So this time I began determined to make the writing as a hobby. Although grammar, plot, punctuation, and development of the story are still broken, it will not reduce my confidence. Much better to try and many wrong than not dare to try at all.

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1. Noticed : the fact of somebody paying attention to somebody / something or knowing about something.

2. Terms : a way of expressing yourself or of saying something.

3. Demand : things that somebody / something makes you do. Especially things that are difficult, make your tired, worried, etc.

4. Burden : a duty, responsibility, etc. that causes worry, difficulty or hard work.

5. Determined : showing a person’s determination to do something.

6. Reduce : to make something less or smaller in size, quantity,  price, etc.

7. Dare : to be brave enough to do something.

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     This is the first impression that I was teaching the students. Last Sunday I taught 2 peoples of students. They are my neighbor and school at the fifth grade in the elementary school. Because this week they have a midterm test, so they asked me to teach them. For the first time I felt doubt, but because they force so I tried.

Perhaps due to nervousness, I was very embarrassed when explains the material on the order of the day name and ordinal number. I thought it is fatal mistakes that I've done and with a title as prospective teachers of English that I carried. Learn from my experienced, I realized that was not easy to become a teacher, still more I need to fix ready to be an educator. For me is not easy to stand up as an artist in front of the students later on with various characters from the students themselves. I'll never quit and surrender. Hopefully the future will always be better than now.

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1. Impression: the effect that an experience or a person has on something.

2. Force: make somebody do something they do not want to do.

3. Prospective: expected to do something or to become something.

4. Realized: understand or become aware of something.

5. Educator: a person whose job is to teach or educate people. 

6. Surrender: to admit that you have been defeated and want to stop fighting.

It's Me

         I've felt to be an internet junkie, facebook in particular. Like this it feels to be an addict. When I feel the addiction, I must get a facebook for my daily consumption. And, when I try to quit, just feeling bored I get in my life. It's not easy to stop completely from facebook, because I'm accustomed to facebook. When wake up even though, not a prayer that I do, but reach mobile and open the internet to see if there is a new notification or not. In a day I could update the status to 4 times more (exceeding the amount of time to eat in a day). Sometimes only trivial and insignificant things that I updated, like I was feeling sleepy, bored, sad, and once when I write a status "Aduh, sakit perut!". Doesn't matter, but it's the truth. I'm a facebook addict.

1st assignment

          I'm Nihayah Imawati, I was born in Kebumen on June 12th, 1991. I live at Jl. Kramat V Rt 002/03 No. 74, Lubang Buaya, Jakarta Timur. I'm the first child, and I have one younger brother. His name is Reza Akhmad Bakhtiar. He study at boarding school in Sukabumi in 1st grade of Senior High School. I like singing, reading, and dancing.
          My parents is teachers. My father is teaching at STM Karya Guna, Manggarai and my mother is at SMPN 272 Jakarta. I really love them, and because they are teachers, I want to be a lecturer.
          I have a bad experience, when I was 4 years old and dancing on Kindergarten festival, I falling down on stage and making all the people laughing. I embarrassed and finally, I forgot my dance and run out from stage.

Dear my Blog

          On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 I went to the campus by motorcycle. Accompanied heavy rain in strong winds occur when the last subject in class. Till the time ends, the rain was still heavy and it seems there has been no a sign to stop. Although there is the option to use a raincoat, I dare not penetrate the strong winds. So I had to wait for the rain's stop.

          While waiting for the rain’s stop, I was joking with my friends at the campus mosque. Finally the rain let up at 16:30. I also hurried to the parking motorcycles and back to home for fear of being caught up the rain again.

          At home, I saw my motorcycle is very dirty. Probably the road is not friendly due to recent heavy rains flushed. And then my washerwoman instinct came out, after changing cleaning service clothes, with the enthusiasm I washed my beloved it. After that, I looked at motorcycle with the great admiration, with proudly I said, "This is my work." 

On the next day

          Not capable to see the motorcycle that is sleek ready in use to go to the campus, I took the initiative to go to the campus by public transportation. Because weather is a little cloudy that morning, I prepared my favorite magical pink umbrella. By locking the door I said, "Oh motorcycle, this is your holiday." 

In the campus 

          2 hours before the lecture ends, the heat oppressive. There has been no sign of rain clouds will occur. This situation has not changed until the time ends. By slowly I walked toward the gate of the campus, I was stopping public transportation, and ride with a lazy feeling.

          The story is not over when on the way, Oh My God, traffic jam plus hot weather sting. I want to scream and crying. 

          When I got home, I ask, "Hi motorcycle, whether your holiday is fun?" and he smiled happily. Then I took a magic pink umbrella from my bag and said to her, "Ready umbrella before the rain was not always beautiful."